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Jean-Luc Godard dies
« on: September 13, 2022, 11:23:34 AM »
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Re: Jean-Luc Godard dies
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2022, 11:35:56 AM »
He's boldly gone where... oops, wrong Jean-Luc.

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Re: Jean-Luc Godard dies
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2022, 12:28:08 PM »
I love his 60s stuff. I remember watching Alphaville on a 12" B&W portable, occasionally having to tweak the aerial, entranced. But I have to admit as time past I found less and less in his later work. It seems that in some ways it might have been easier to reinvent cinema than reinvent himself. But, perhaps time for a revisit.

Breathless is one of the all time great directorial debuts.

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Re: Jean-Luc Godard dies
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2022, 12:39:22 PM »
He's boldly gone where... oops, wrong Jean-Luc.
Little known fact: the 'Make it so' command from Picard was Patrick Stewart's tribute to Godard after he noticed the name similarity and knew that Godard often used the term 'Facilitons cela' when directing.
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Re: Jean-Luc Godard dies
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2022, 05:11:05 PM »
He opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland.

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